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quotes by topic Ethics

" Broad tolerance in the matter of beliefs is necessarily a part of the new ethics "

Ethics , Tolerance

" Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life. "

Albert Schweitzer

Ethics , Life , Reverence

" Because like all whores you value propriety. You are creature of capitalism, the ethics of which are so totally corrupt and hypocritical that your beauty is no more than the beauty of gold, which is to say false and cold and useless. "

Gold , Ethics , Useless

" It is a self-deception of philosophers and moralists to imagine that they escape decadence by opposing it. That is beyond their will; and, however little they acknowledge it, one later discovers that they were among the most powerful promoters of decadence. "

Friedrich Nietzsche

Ethics

" To be incapable of taking one‚Äôs enemies, one‚Äôs accidents, even one‚Äôs misdeeds seriously for very long - that is the sign of strong full natures in whom there is an excess of power to form, to mold, to recuperate and to forget. Mirabeau had no memory for insults and vile actions done to him and was unable to forgive simply because he - forgot. Such a man shakes off with a single shrug the many vermin that eat deep into others. "

Friedrich Nietzsche

Ethics

" By starving the sensibility of our pupils we only make them easier prey to the propagandist when he comes. For famished nature will be avenged and a hard heart is no infallible protection against a soft head. "

Education , Ethics

" the difference between the old and the new education being) in a word, the old was a kind of propagation - men transmitting manhood to men; the new is merely propaganda. "

Education , Ethics

" Just take the weapon you hold in your hand and drive it through his heart," Valentine's voice was soft. "One simple motion. Nothing you haven't done before."Jace met his father's stare with a level gaze. "I saw Agramon," he said. "It had your "

Cassandra Clare

Ethics , demon

" So long as there is death there will be sorrow, and so long as there is sorrow it can be no part of the duty of human beings to increase its amount, in spite of the fact that a few rare spirits know how to transmute it. "

Bertrand Russell

Duty , Ethics

Ethics , Tolerance